I'm happy about this news as well. I would have rather had a newly sculpted Wedge (and at a $5-6 pricepoint as well), but this is a figure I've always wanted to add to my collection. Nice to see that he is coming as a carded figure for the first time, although they could have probably gotten away with releasing him to retail. Either way, I'm happy that Wedge is coming our way.

My memory for this kind of thing stinks but... when they gave us the choice on what figure would be the 36th OTC figure, was the Wedge from the Carrying Case one of those choices?

I'm glad they're giving us this figure individually carded, but the Wedge from the 3-pack is a WAY BETTER figure than this one. If they were going to give us a carded Wedge figure, I'd prefer it was the one from the Rebel Pilots cinema scene.

I just ordered my two. *sigh* Lemming Peter reporting for duty!

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Peter

Letting my collecting OCD get the better of me on a DAILY basis... and loving EVERY minute of it!

SilverZ

It looks like my hope for a decent Wedge figure, after 10 years, has been finally and completely **** upon and stomped out of existence.

There's zero reason for this figure to be done in this way. Zero. They have the new and vastly superior (abeit tall) rebel pilot sculpt, an acceptable headsculpt of Wedge from the Rebel Pilots CS, and the removable helmet from either the 3-pack or Gold Leader figures to kitbash from.

Completely insane. A POTF2 rerelease, when there is a much better Screen Scene version out there? Hell, they could have kitbashed a new figure with the SAGA Gold Leader! And at $16? That's just a slap in the face.

I never picked up the CS version of Wedge, but gathering from what everyone is saying...as a loose collector...I might be better off going that way. I certainly don't feel like spending $20 for a POTF2 repack. We'll see, I'd like a Wedge one way or another...I'll hold off until we see a carded sample...maybe at Comic-Con.